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as much as I dislike the current state of Twitter (now X (formerly Twitter)) and I'm aware of its biases - what is that serialization format? kebab-cased key names? no quotes around strings?

if it is real - keyword here being if - Twitter would have to had created its own parser for this. while not hard, why wouldn't they just... use something like JSON? YAML? TOML? ...XML?

i'm also not sure why would they host a configuration file like this out on the open web, when it's accessed strictly by the backend. why? what's the point...?

somethings fishy here, can someone clue me in on this...?